First, it has nothing to do with safety.

Why would people in Cleveland care enough to make shirts about Wilson?

You're wrong for two reasons:

Country is a bunch of unbearable hicks twanging about pickups and beer.

If by "self-respecting," you mean "fundamentally ignorant," then you're probably right.

The proportion of shitty country to good country music is the same as shitty rock to good rock, and shitty hip-hop to good hip-hop. 5% of it is good, 95% is terrible. It is always thus.

Country doesn't exist.

The best "country" always came out of Texas

I get why the protestors are angry. I get why people who support Darren Wilson are angry.

So you agree that the crowd is engaging in utterly indefensible conduct, but you still want to excuse it away by pretending that "both sides" had at least some justification to act badly. Here's the "nuance" for you: the police killed an unarmed black kid in the middle of the street, and then responded with brutal…

How about telling the protesters to get a job, or to stop smoking crack?

You've really made a good point and given me a lot to think about.

See, the problem with that is that Darren Wilson is in no danger of losing his due process rights. The issue is that an unarmed teenager was shot to death in the street, and the local police responded wholly inappropriately to the resulting demonstrations.

In that context it is perfectly called for. When the insinuation is that the protesters are somehow less "American" than the good folks going to the game, then I think it is more than appropriate to point it out if your ass has been in the service while that dumb fuck was sitting on the couch watching Fox.

Could you explain the "nuance" in chanting "let's go Darren" or "Africa" at the protesters?

There is no meaningful difference between chanting "let's go Darren" in front of these protesters and dangling a noose in front of a bunch of voting rights protesters in 1965. It's the same damn thing.

Yeah, the "issue" of whether to engage in ugly, ignorant racism. One side definitely made itself heard on that issue.

They're saying that killing an unarmed black kid is nothing to feel bad about.

I'm willing to bet that if this kind of crowd behavior was videotaped outside a stadium in LA, Deadpsin would have also featured it. In any event, the fact that ugly racism also exists somewhere else is not a reason not to point it out and mock it here.

You're asking why a fan should not be allowed to shine a laser into a player's eyes. Take a moment and think about that.